WEST AUSTRALIANA
The book, the first to be written about the Western Australian prison system, examines how the system evolved, how it relates to a changing and expanding society, and analyses the historical forces that created the system as it stands today.
- xv,219p., 4p. of plates, 1 leaf of plates : graph, map ; 23cm. append. (1-3), notes, biblio., index. First Edition
- Bibliography: p.207-215.
#180124 (Closed tear to jacket.)
- Penal system. Western Australia, 1826-1978
- Imprisonment — Western Australia — History
- Prisons — Western Australia — History
- Punishment — Australia — Western — Australia — History
- Law enforcement – Prisons
- Human biology – Physical anthropology – Human evolution
- Colonisation
- Rottnest Island / Wadjemup (SW WA SH50-14)